"Crowdworker online communities – operating in fora like mTurkForum and TurkerNation – are an important actor in microwork markets. Albeit central to market dynamics, how the behavior of crowdworker communities and the dynamics...

https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/24/study-shows-newspaper-op-eds-change-minds]]>Quick update: improved browser tab titles for MTurk WorkersMon, 09 Apr 2018 16:03:35 +0000https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/quick-update-improved-browser-tab-titles-for-mturk-workers.3337/
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"Today, we’re pleased to announce an additional improvement that Worker customers requested. Workers asked that we make it easier to find the full Requester Name and HIT title in the event that their screen or browser window wasn’t wide enough to view the entire detail.

We’ve added functionality to help Workers view “tooltips” when they hover their mouse cursor over these fields to see the entire text in the field."...

Quick update: another improvement to the MTurk Worker experience]]>More improvements to the MTurk Worker experienceFri, 23 Mar 2018 03:13:40 +0000https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/more-improvements-to-the-mturk-worker-experience.3049/
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- As we announced in last week’s blog post, this week we changed the default filter for MTurk Workers to only show HITs that pay $0.01 or more.

- See more information about a HIT at-a-glance. This week, we launched an improvement to display the HIT Title, Requester Name, HIT count, Reward Amount, and Time Left just above the HIT workspace. Now...

Set up your first Human Intelligence Task (HIT) on Mechanical Turk for data collection!

Reduce issues for both you and the “Workers” that accept your Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs)...

Click to expand...

How to Attract “Turkers” and Be the Ultimate Mechanical Turk Hero!]]>6Updates to the Worker experience: a refreshed Dashboard & a new experience for new WorkersTue, 20 Feb 2018 17:00:08 +0000https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/updates-to-the-worker-experience-a-refreshed-dashboard-a-new-experience-for-new-workers.2730/
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More details at the blog post: https://blog.mturk.com/introducing-...shboard-a-new-experience-for-new-e9218ee281bd]]>8Upcoming change to MTurk Worker site reward filtersFri, 02 Feb 2018 21:56:16 +0000https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/upcoming-change-to-mturk-worker-site-reward-filters.3023/
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More on the blog:...

My goal is to reveal a whole ecosystem of crowdturfing. Who are the workers performing these tasks?What websites...

Are you participating in "Crowdturfing"?]]>6How many Mechanical Turk workers are there?Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:51:35 +0000https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/how-many-mechanical-turk-workers-are-there.3008/
https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/how-many-mechanical-turk-workers-are-there.3008/invalid@example.com (electrolyte)electrolyteTL;DR: There are about 100K-200K unique workers on Amazon. On average, there are 2K-5K workers active on Amazon at any given time. On average, 50% of the worker population changes within 12-18 months. Workers exhibit widely different patterns of activity, with most workers being active only occasionally, and few workers being very active. Combining these results from Hara et al, we see that MTurk has a yearly transaction volume of a few...

"Last month, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) launched a new website for MTurk Worker customers. The new site has a simpler navigation and refreshed design. It is also mobile-responsive, allowing Workers to discover, accept, and submit Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) on tablets and smartphones in addition to desktop computers and...

Get to know the new Worker site]]>Updates to the new MTurk Worker websiteSat, 16 Dec 2017 06:24:29 +0000https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/updates-to-the-new-mturk-worker-website.2898/
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"AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community. The event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities. Conference attendees have access to more than 1,000 technical sessions, a partner expo, after-hours events, and so much more. The conference takes place in Las Vegas from November 27th to December...

MTurk is heading to AWS re:Invent 2017]]>6Upcoming changes to the MTurk Requester Website and QuestionForm data formatWed, 08 Nov 2017 01:50:27 +0000https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/upcoming-changes-to-the-mturk-requester-website-and-questionform-data-format.2759/
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"Today we’re announcing changes to MTurk’s Requester Website and changes to QuestionForm, one of the data structures used by Requesters when making calls to the MTurk API. These changes are intended to allow us to commit more resources toward fewer separate experiences and continue to deliver an even better product for MTurk customers."

"As part of our efforts to improve Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) for Requesters and Workers alike, we took a fresh look at our legal terms. Today we’ve posted updates to our Participation Agreement,...

Updated Amazon Mechanical Turk Terms — What’s Changed]]>82MTurk now supports Amazon SNS NotificationsSat, 07 Oct 2017 21:01:29 +0000https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/mturk-now-supports-amazon-sns-notifications.2689/
https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/mturk-now-supports-amazon-sns-notifications.2689/invalid@example.com (electrolyte)electrolyteAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). SNS is a managed messaging service for coordinating the delivery of messages to subscribing endpoints and clients. With SNS, customers can fan-out messages to a large number of subscribers, including distributed systems and other services. It enables a set of powerful...